OUR VIEWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2683, 16 August 1905, Page 81

OUR VIEWS.

"Good gracious, Noah! Whatever are you cutting the bread so thick for?" "So that it won't break when Eve i 3 toasting it, you thickhead." "I wasn't talking of thickheads, but of thick bread, and your slices are so thick that I fail to see why y(m cut it at all." "That's right, Adam. With you it's 'Growl, growl, growl, morning, night, and noon.' We can't have a meal but what you complain of something; but, never mind, butter that toast for Eve." ___ "Look, Noah, see how he spreads it. Butter is fat, and he likes to get 'fat' on one piece, but we remember the time when he got fat on twenty or so." "Ah, well, tea is over, with little talk, for obvious reasons, and you boys don't seem able* for a chat j-et. Ah! you are boys all overjust real boys. But stir yourselves up." "I'll give you some news under the heading of 'Surprise Parties.' To me it is marvellous what .swelled feet some of our chums can squeeze into small (?) boots. Just think of it, trying t<? run a surprise party every week! The idea is simply monstrous. And, again, such things as surprise parties are not at all times welcome to those whom the surprise is sprung upon. Verily you have confidence in yourselves ; but beware, for over-confidence is a bad thing. Again, are you not aipt to lose sight of our annual social? Pray, go aisy." "Yes, that's all true, Noah ; but you forgot to mention that the Chatters had never been asked to one of these parties. Why?" "Well, Eve, I promised Ncah that I would give my opinion on a few of our writers." "Very well, Adam, go on." "Queer Fellow, of whom so much has been said of late, stands out prominently as one of the best of recent writers to the page. Of course his roving life gives him plenty of subject matter, aaid I am pleased to note that he is one of the few who can make that matter interesting to his reader. Personally, I feel indebted to Q. F. for many a happy minute I have spent in reading his contributions. "The Duke's Amuser: I cannot say much of her as a writer to the page of late, but aa a worker I cannot but speak of her with the greatest admiration. No labour has she spared herself at any time in any D.L.F. movement. She has been on every committee to my knowledge, and has soon won the admiration of all as a battler. To her justly belongs the honour of setting the club movement on foot, which sprang from her shortly after her suggestion of forming a Picnic Comrcittee was acted upon. Of course, she had help, but T. D. A. herself has been the chief worker. Of her helpers we will speak in the near future, or, at least, either you, "ye, or Noah can. "Hiawatha, now: she stood out as a real good, interesting writer, who, like C. C. M., always made her letters most interesting in spite of her subjects. "Ceres bears out that old saying that 'Good things are often put up in small parcels.' He is an earnest worker, enthusiastic, and Busliing, a writer who commands a fair ccxaiinand of his pen, and some day not very distant may be looked upon as occupying the platform of an orator. Who can tell? "Southland Critic: I know him well, and he, too, if not with his notes, has in many other ways been a mint to the Southland Club. Drive on, ye Southland friends; thy beacon light seems yet distant, but you are gradually shortening that distance. All honour to you." "Adam, you have spoken at length — at such length that Eve and I feel proud of you for your lasting powers,"-

'•We do indeed, Adam; Noah has spoken tiuly." THE CHATTERS.